ForeFlight Mobile incorporates weather data from various sources.
The Weather Company, a subsidiary of the Watson & Cloud Platform business unit of IBM, provides the following weather products:
- Radar Imagery
- Worldwide lightning
- US/Canada Doppler radar-indicated Mesocyclone, Hail, and Tornado / TVS signatures
- Worldwide color-enhanced infrared satellite
- Worldwide color-enhanced visible satellite imagery
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides the following graphical and textual weather products:
- METARs
- TAFs
- AIRMET/SIGMETs
- PIREPs / Aircraft reports
- Imagery
- Winds aloft
- Temperature aloft
- Center Weather Advisories (CWAs)
- MOS
- Area Forecast Discussions
Additionally, the US Air Force 557th Weather Wing at Offutt Air Force Base provides the following textual weather products to ForeFlight Military Flight Bag. These products appear in ForeFlight Military Flight Bag tagged with the “557WW” identifier:
- METARs
- TAFs
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